Finding the UniqueID of a player

[Smoot178]

Hello again.

I am trying to find the UniqueID of a player like that of which most prop protection, the sui scoreboard, and utime uses to store information.

How can I find it out?

Thanks.

[Major_Pain]

Type status into console and it will be the first number in the line that the person's name is in.

[Megiddo]

Major Pain is incorrect, you cannot find UniqueIDs that way (He's referring to the EntID, a very different number). You can only look up a unique id from lua. For example, you could execute the following in console:

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lua_run print( Entity( entid ):UniqueID() )
Where entid is the EntID found using Major Pain's method. You'll see the unique id of the player in question.

[Smoot178]

Thanks, that worked!

Edit: but it didn't work on myself D:

:1: attempt to call method 'UniqueID' (a nil value)

[Major_Pain]

My bad, I didn't thing he was talking about lua.

You can also store unique IDs in a table.

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playersID = {} --Creates the table

function getAllPlayers() --Creates a function
for k,v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do--Makes a variable that stores the players(v)
playersID[v] = v:Nick() --Makes the key of the table the uniqueID and the string their name
end --Ends the for loop
end --Ends the function

concommand.Add( "storeplayers", getAllPlayers) --Creates a console command to store the players IDs in the table by calling the function
Then you could use PrintTable to print the "playersID" table. Like this:

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lua_run PrintTable(playersID)
It should return the uniqueID on the left and the name of the player on the right.